In this episode, Jennifer Finley talks with Maggie Long, a first generation mushroom farmer in St. Francisville, Louisiana. They discuss how she reconnected with her husband-to-be while he was incarcerated, how they built a farm from the ground up, lost it all, and rebuilt with the help of friends, family, and their growing community of customers, fellow farmers, and even prisoners looking for a second chance at life.
Louisiana Farm Bureau is constantly working protect and promote Louisiana's farmers, ranchers, and rural residents. This podcast exists to share stories of those farmers with interviews about their farms and issues important to them. Here, we will also share about the work Farm Bureau is doing on their behalf on issues related to public policy from the parish level all the way to the halls of Congress in D.C.